I think a person or company has the right to cease to work on a
particular program; the wrong here is Microsoft does this after having
made the users dependent on Microsoft, so they are not free to ask
someone else to work on the program for them.

That article disregards all other bad things about proprietary
software. For instance, it regards the inclusion of proprietary Flash
Player (which has
a surveillance
feature and DRM) in Chrome as a good thing. Chrome is a
proprietary browser with a universal back door.

We don't agree with the article's views on those issues, but we
present it as a factual reference.